ARP/RARP network install works, but you need to pass a lot of parameters.

The working openboot command is :

boot net root=/dev/rd/0 rw devfs=mount

Actually it seems to work without these boot params

Partitioning

No facility (or recomendation) to create the 'whole disk' partition.

Older sparc machines require that there is a 'whole disk' partition in order to boot

Workaround - Partition the disk using fdisk from a woody install as fdisk is not in the installer

Or man parted?

Kernel does not support LVM

Bug / Niggaling Issue platform independant

Whilst installing base packages, if the link is lost or the connection times out then the installer starts at the begining again (not the begining of the file in question but the beginning of the download/validate process)

This makes it painfully slow - as although the system finds it has already downloaded files it still insists in revaladating each file. Which on a ?170MHz ?SS20 takes a long time.